In the middle of the day, Zipp was flying around Maritime Bay at high speed as she zoomed around, bounced off a trampoline, and zoomed straight to the sky, then she zoomed down to the ground in a puff of smoke, sliding and standing straight with pride.

While she smiled proudly, Pipp live-streamed the whole thing through her phone, which Zipp noticed in shock.

"That's all, Zippsters!" Pipp called out as Zipp ran away from the camera. "Like and subscriiiiibe!" Pipp sang while waving at the camera, but then Zipp came next to her with an irritated look.

"Stop trying to make 'Zippsters' happen, Pipp!" Zipp yelled at her sister while Pipp flinched at the reaction. "I don't want followers!" Zipp added, then she put Pipp's phone down, ending the livestream immediately.

Meanwhile, Sunny served her fruit smoothies to Hitch, Izzy, and Sonic at her stand. Sunny then gave three smoothies to three of her best friends. "And that's three pineapple punch smoothies with extra…" she announced as she turned around and saw that the fruit supplies in the crates were empty, making her gasp in surprise. "Nothing?" she asked in shock, then turned to face her friends. "Sorry, everypony. My fruit delivery was supposed to get here hours ago!" she apologized and explained.

"I mean, you know what they say: a late delivery is probably safe!" Izzy suggested with a smile, thinking that the delivery would be here soon.

"Yeah... sorry, Izzy, but I don't buy it," Sonic replied doubtfully. "You'd think a safe delivery would have arrived by now."

Suddenly, the group saw a shadow over them.

"Huh?" Hitch questioned.

"Uh... what was that?” Sonic asked.

Sunny looked out the window and saw what was up in the sky, then gasped in a little shock.

The four friends gasped in shock when a pegasus mare carrying fruit supplies crashed down into a glass stand, sending fruits flying by.

Both Sunny and Izzy screamed and ducked, Sonic turned into a ball and Hitch looked in shock while a green fruit splat right into his face. The two mares and the hedgehog looked at the crash site and saw the pegasus mare.

The pegasus had iris-colored hooves and bright lilac eyes; her mane, tail, and flight feathers were light yellow; her mane was wavy and tied in a ponytail; she was wearing a pink visor and bag; and her Cutie Mark was two yellow shooting stars with trails. She groaned from the crash and was covered in fruit juice, then recovered quickly and cleared her throat.

"Fifi's Flying Fruit Smoothies Smooth Fruit Delivery Service! Where every delivery is... smooth!" she said with a nervous tone and a sheepish smile, while an earth pony mare slipped on a banana peel and fell to the ground, the an earth pony stallion looked in shock at the destruction of the stand.

Sonic then returned to normal, cleaned up the dust off his body, and spoke. "Well, I hate to be the skeleton at the feast, but ever since magic came back, Zipp is the only pegasus I've seen able to fly properly. Oh, and Pipp as well," he commented in a concerned tone. "The other pegasi... they need help. Like, A LOT of help."

"I see your point there, Sonic," Hitch said, cleaning up the fruit mess on his face. "I have to fill out the paperwork for this stand and report about this," he said annoyedly.

Sonic then suddenly grabbed his ear while Hitch groaned in pain. "Stop thinking about your job for a second, Hitch!" he scolded, then let his ear go, and Hitch rubbed it. "Look, I'm not an expert on flying since Tails always carry me, but I can tell that these pegasi have to learn how to fly properly, or else more crashes will happen. Or even worse: someone might get hurt."

Pipp came to the group with a concerned frown after seeing the crash. "I agree with Sonic. We need to find a solution to the pegasi's lack of flying. I can’t stand to see one of my own falling like that..." she confessed since she was a pegasus too.

Sonic stroked Pipp's mane a little, which made her blush suddenly, but she didn't complain since it felt good, although she wasn't about to admit it. "Don't worry, Pipp. We'll eventually find a way to help these pegasi to fly better..." he assured her.

Then the group looked at Zipp, who was walking toward them, and she laughed at the incident. "Whoa. Somepony really needs to teach these Pegasi how to fly!" she pointed out as she laughed.

Sonic looked at her with a bored expression at first, but then suddenly, something came to his mind, and he smirked at Zipp. The rest of the mane Mane 5 all thought what Sonic was thinking as they looked at Zipp with sparkling eyes. "Ahhhh…" they said together while Pipp brought Fifi into the group, looking confused.

Zipp stopped laughing and looked at her friends with a worried expression, knowing what her friends were thinking. "Oh, No-no-no-no-no!" Zipp nervously started as she started to sweat. "There's no way I would ever…"

A while later, the others convinced Zipp to teach the Pegasi to fly since they were in an open area of Maritime Bay, where Zipp was recruiting her students: two of her royal guards, Zoom and Thunder, and a pink Pegasus named Windy.

Zipp read the introduction in an unenthusiastic tone next to a sign that said WINGS, with Zipp's lightning bolt for the I and her wings in the sides. "Welcome to W-I-N-G-S. 'The Wonderful Institute of No-Gravity Sky-walking?'" she questioned the title with confusion.

"It means flight school," Pipp corrected as she came to her side with a smile.

"It's really more of a one-off training day," Zipp pointed out to Pipp since she wasn't planning on teaching the pegasi about flying for the rest of her life.

"I was told it's an academy," Zoom pointed out, very interested in flying right.

Fifi then came to the rookies. “Uh, is this the University of Flying?” she questioned with a confused smile.

Zipp then raised an eyebrow at Pipp, who smiled nervously and backed away. Zipp turned to the others, as Sunny shrugged and Izzy shook her head. Hitch laughed, and Sonic tried very hard not to, but they ended when Izzy glared at them and shook their heads, saying it wasn't them either.

Zipp faced hoof herself as she sighed. "Ugh, whatever. Let's just get started," she pointed out, then turned to the rookies. "Who can tell me how to do a double roulette twist?" she asked them with a smile.

The four pegasi looked confused and stayed silent until Windy spoke. "Oh! I know about flapping!" she answered as she flapped her wings.

Zipp's face walked again in frustration, and Sunny came to her. "Uh, Zipp?" she questioned.

"What is it?" Zipp asked with a look.

"Oh, it's when you move your wings up and down over and—" Windy said, thinking Zipp asked her but was cut off.

"Not you, Windy..." Zipp pointed out, and Windy stared in surprise. Then Zipp looked back at Sunny.

"Maybe you start with something simpler... Like an obstacle course?" Sunny suggested that since it was easier for the pegasi to learn,

"Obstacle course?" Zipp asked, confused. "I don't have an…" she was cut off by a certain unicorn voice.

"Ta-daaaaa!" Izzy cheered as the group turned to see that she had used her ‘Unicycling’ skills to create an obstacle course with a starting line, a jumping board, and some hoops for flying—the basics. Sonic was at Izzy's side, meaning he used his Sonic speed to help finish the process faster. The starting line sign tilted slightly, but Izzy ran to it and straightened it out.

"What?!" Zipp called out in surprise as Sunny smiled at the sight. "Where did that come from?!" she questioned.

"Fastest thing alive, Unicycling skills," Sonic replied boredly, pointing at himself and Izzy. "Just do your thing now, Zipp," he pleaded.

"Over to you, captain!" Pipp spoke out with a salute and a smile.

"I'm not a capta—!" Zipp yelled out but stopped in the midsection. "... Fine..." she groaned as she came to the students. "Everyone, watch carefully," she pled calmly and then demonstrated her flying tricks to the rookies. She flew into the air at the starting point of the obstacle course, then flew up and down through the first obstacles, zig-zagged through the hoops, and then flew straight to the clouds, grabbed some, and used them to make a Pegasus shape.

Down below, the four Pegasi students are in awe of Zipp's expert flying stunt. Sonic smirked while looking at Zipp.

"Show off!" he exclaimed.

"Easy," Zipp said with pride. "Now, who wants to go first?" she asked the pegasi so they could show how they fly. Still in shock from Zipp's demonstration, none of the students volunteered, so Windy lifted Thunder’s hoof, with Thunder not noticing until a few seconds later. Zipp sighed, a little bored. "All right. You're up, Thunder," she called out while Thunder was nervous.

Thunder came to the starting point and looked at the sign, a little dizzy. He flew up but hit the starting sign with a grunt and crashed to the floor. The other three Pegasi cringed at the sight while Thunder groaned in slight pain.

Zipp looked with a sigh. "This is gonna be a loooong day..." she said, stating that this flying lesson would be harder than she thought.

"Oh, I'm so gonna enjoy this!" Sonic exclaimed while rubbing his hands. "I'm gonna get some chilidogs to watch the show!" he stated, then ran off and returned with one chilidog in each hand.

Windy came next, staring at the starting line with a determined look, ready to start the obstacle course. But suddenly, she saw a daisy flower in front of her, and she shrieked in fear. "Aah! Daisies!" she yelled, then zipped away and ran to a bush behind Zipp. "My greatest fear!" she cried as Zipp shook her head.

Sonic, Zipp, and Hitch were now next to each other.

"Okaaaay... Next?" she questioned with a bored expression.

It was Fifi's turn; Hitch cheered to the pegasus while waving at her. Fifi looked with a determined smile as she spread her wings, with her fruit cart behind her, to see if she could do it without crashing this time. She flew over the starting line, but her cart hit the sign as she rolled in the air, then crashed to the ground, with her fruits falling out of the cart as she crashed. Her head popped up in dizziness as Hitch did as well, being the pony who was a victim in the crash and once again covered in fruit.

"From animal magnet to fruit magnet. What a progress!" Sonic mocked as both he and Zipp burst out laughing.

"I can hear you two, you know!" Hitch called out in annoyance.

Zoom flew up straight to the sky, sloppy grabbing some clouds as she zoomed around, making the clouds she caught into the shape of a sloppy pegasus picture that Zipp had done earlier. Zipp looked at it with a raised eyebrow while Izzy shook her head with sparkly eyes and smiled at seeing the picture. But when Zipp looked at Izzy, she corrected herself by shaking her head in disagreement with the picture.

Hitch and Sonic used safety sticks to help Fifi steady her flying, but Fifi fell on her back with a grunt. The fruit cart crashed again as well, making Hitch look in shock and worry, but Sonic ran away when some fruits came towards them, and one hit Hitch in the face... again, which caused him to take a bored expression and groan.

Sonic returned and helped Fifi get up, but when he turned to see Hitch, he burst out laughing at him again. "Ahahahahaha! I'm not getting this over with anytime soon!" he snorted as Hitch looked at him with annoyance.

"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up, Hedgehog," Hitch replied.

Izzy and Sunny pushed Windy to try to fly through the starting line, with Pipp right in front of them taking photos, but Windy started screaming since she didn't want to try again because she was afraid of finding more daisies.

Zoom and Thunder crash into each other in the air with painful grunts.

A little while later, the four Pegasi were on the ground. Fifi, Thunder, and Zoom were groaning from their crashes, and Windy had a freak-out expression while rocking back and forth, with piles of fruits everywhere around them.

Zipp spoke out in frustration. "Well, I'm sure you all enjoyed that more than I did," she said as she spread her wings. "Good luck," she said to the four pegasi and then flew away, leaving her friends behind as she couldn't take it anymore.

"... Well, this sucks..." Sonic said with a little sadness as he kicked a piece of fruit.

Zipp then landed on a hill. Looking down in exhaustion, she saw something below her. "Huh..." she said as she saw two Pegasi, a mother and a foal. The mother was teaching her son how to fly as she lifted her son into the air.

Zipp briefly watched the foal fly into the air as he giggled, but he stopped when he lost his balance and fell to the ground. The mother gasped in shock at seeing her son fall as she ran towards him to see if he was alright. Her son landed on a bush to her relief, so she picked him up.

"Yay!" she cheered out for her son on his first flight as the two nuzzled each other's heads.

Zipp immediately had a flashback of her trying to fly before the magic was restored when she was just a filly.

Years ago, when the three tribes were still divided, and the magic was lost, Young Zipp was trying to fly with her mother, Queen Haven, beside her daughter with a smile, who placed pillows all over the floor so Zipp wouldn't hurt herself while trying to fly.

Zipp giggled and jumped up and down the chair, flipped over the air, and spread her wings, thinking she was flying, but then she fell to the floor with a grunt. She crashed into the pillows to soften her landing, but when she got out of the pile, she whimpered since she couldn’t fly, thinking that she would never fly like the other pegasi couldn’t either.

Haven came to her daughter with an encouraging smile. "Come on, Zephyrina. Don't give up!" she spoke to her, wanting her daughter to keep trying. Zipp got up with a determined look and then hopped to her mother, trying to fly. She hopped from pillow to pillow with a grunt from hopping on each pillow, then flipped and glided to her mother. Haven smiled at her daughter’s determination to keep trying. "Don't give up!" she repeated, then hugged her daughter.

Zipp had a heartful look from that memory, then saw that Izzy was next to her left ear, whispering the word in her flashback. "Don't give up. Don't give up,” Izzy repeated, which Zipp now noticed with her raised eyebrows. Then, with a smile, Zipp turned to the unicorn.

"Thanks, Izzy," she said, as Izzy smiled back at her. Zipp then looked down at the four pegasi, groaning from their flying lessons as they lay on the ground. All right!" Zipp called out as the four pegasi looked at her, flying over them with a smile. "Listen up! I'm gonna get you flying if it's the last thing I do!" she said, then immediately cleared her throat and corrected herself. "Before five. Day ends at five," she pointed out with a smile.

The four Pegasi laughed and cheered. They stood tall and proud, determined to learn how to fly.

A while later, back at the obstacle course, Thunder flew straight through it while dodging a couple of obstacles that came his way. He tripped on one as he was about to crash, but this time, he got some help from Pipp and Zipp since they were using two air blowers to blow Thunder back into the air to keep trying.

Zoom was nervously laughing as she was tied to a rope around her mid-waist, with Sunny tied to the other end to help Zoom with her balance as Sunny trotted across the field. Zoom hit a pile of clouds and then made a pegasus picture again, a little sloppy but better than the last one, which Zipp nodded her head, approving.

Fifi was whooshing through the obstacle course with her fruit cart again, but this time, she went through the obstacle as she flew to the 'X' that Hitch and Sonic made while using the safety sticks again. Fifi stuck the landing perfectly, but her fruit cart wasn’t so lucky as it flew over her and crashed. Sonic was next to the crashed cart with the fruits spilled out, but Hitch was unlucky again since he was covered in spilled fruit with a watermelon on his head as he groaned from the crash.

"Yup, still funny," Sonic said, laughing a little.

Izzy then gave up a sock puppet show with a daisy and a puppet of Windy to help Windy overcome her fears of a daisy. "I'm Windy! Come on, daisy! Let's be friends!" Izzy laughs as she reveals her head to Windy and looks at her. Windy nervously whimpers with a smile.

Then the four Pegasi started flying around, with Zipp looking at them with pride, seeing how they had improved. Hitch’s crew watched as McSnips tried to fly by flapping his claws but fell off the bench he and the two birds sat at.

Thunder zoomed through the obstacle perfectly, Zoom flew to the clouds and made a perfect copy of Zipp with the right picture this time, and Fifi flew through the hoops and landed on the ground with a grunt. Her cart didn’t fall out or crash this time.

Hitch’s crew then showed McSnips how to flap properly, and the crab tried it and made sure he didn’t fall off again.

Izzy then made a necklace out of daisies for Windy, who gasped in shock as Izzy threw the necklace into the air, which landed around Windy’s neck. Windy was a little freaked out but calmed down as the daisies weren’t doing anything to her.

Then, the four Pegasi flew side to side at top speed, making a rainbow based on their coat colors as they flew by. Zipp saw this and formed a proud smile.

The four Pegasi returned a while later, and Zipp gave them waste bands. There was a rainbow with Zipp’s wings and Cutie Mark on it, and they looked at Zipp with a smile. The Mane 5 and Sonic were on stage, and Izzy whipped them up. "Cadets!" Zipp shouted, "This morning, you looked like a bunch of Earth ponies with wings taped to your back!"

"Awww…" Fifi groans in disappointment, with the other pegasi looking on in confusion.

"But now you're captains of the sky!" Zipp continued with a smile as the Pegasi smiled with joy.

"Ooh!" Fifi said joyfully.

"You may now throw your hats," Zipp called out, as it was time for them to celebrate.

The Pegasi cheered as they threw their hats to the sky but accidentally hit a pegasus, Fruit Delivery, who was also carrying a fruit cart. The Pegasus shouted as she crashed, and fruit flew out of the cart.

Sonic was about to get hit by a pineapple, but he immediately moved next to Pipp, and karma struck again since Hitch was hit by a fruit again. Hitch had an irritated look and groaned.

Pipp tried not to laugh, but Sonic did laugh and then pulled his phone out. "Alright, I'm saving this one!" he said with a smile, then ran back with Hitch and took a selfie.

The four Pegasi then laughed at their accomplishments in flying as Sunny came to Zipp’s side. "Zipp, that was amazing! You're a natural," Sunny smiled as she placed a hoof on Zipp.

"I suppose it was kind of fun..." Zipp admitted with a smile. You know, maybe I'll run that flight school after all…" she suggested, which shocked Sunny. Zipp continued with a smirk. When crabs fly!" she finished with a smile. She and Sunny started laughing at the joke, and the entire group enjoyed their moments together.

Unknown to them, the two birds Hitch’s crews carried McSnip into the air so he could experience what flying is like as they flew to the sky and into the clouds.

THE END

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!